“While digital TV suppliers have the financial and intellectual resources to produce sophisticated video algorithms, they are being challenged to differentiate products in an increasingly competitive marketplace with fewer resources, smaller budgets, and tighter schedules,” said Harry Raftopoulos, director of consumer segment marketing at Xilinx.

See also: Xilinx CEO sees Darwinism at playThe promotion of Spartan-6 based designs using the design platform follows the wider use of earlier FPGAs in DTV applications.

The design platform was developed in collaboration with Tokyo Electron Device (TED).

It is a scalable hardware and software design which includes a Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA base board along with several daughter cards based on the industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) specification, soft IP from Xilinx and TED supporting display interfaces.